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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n11:35 AM MAURY MAVERICK to CORCORAN. CORCORAN said, \"You're doing something terrible\nto me. You're ruining my relations with my best ent--General Cable\nCorporation--in which you're chiseling in on an award which was made to\nthem at the Treasury. May I send down to you BILL YOUNGMAN and MAC WRIGHT\nso you 'll know what the situation is?\" It was agreed YOUNGMAN and WRIGHT\nwould see MAVERICK at the latter's office at 2:15 P.M. today.\n11:45 AM CORCORAN to Senator PEPPER's office to BOB FOKES (Secretary to PEPPER) who\nis out. Latter will contact CORCORAN.\n11:50\nAM CHARLES MERKESON to CORCORAN. Latter said he had seen CLAUDE (PEPPER) this\nmorning and worked out a 24-hour program. CHARLES said CLAUDE may take it\non \"himself\" but CORCORAN said \"we can handle it.\" CORCORAN said that PEPPER\nwill begin reporting to him this P.M.\n12:15\nPM CORCORAN to D. WORTH CLARK telling him he told his \"white one\" to (MARTIN)\nPENDERGAST and latter is delighted. CORCORAN said, \"But we've got to get\ntogether right after lunch.\" O.K.\n12:18\nPM CORCORAN to JAMES P. McGRANERY at Justice Department. McGRANERY was not in.\nHe is still at the shore. A secretary told CORCORAN that GUS (VANECH,\nDepartment of Justice) might know. GUS told CORCORAN that JIM would be in\nabout 5:30 P.M. today. CORCORAN asked GUS to remind him of two things:\nOne, the Senate does not adjourn until Wednesday night and, two, S-F-R-V-I-C-E.\nCORCORAN asked GUS to ask JIM to tell CORCORAN \"what to do about 'em.\"\nCORCORAN will be at home tonight.\n12:45\nPM\nED PRICHARD to CORCORAN. Latter asked when BEN (COHEN ?) will be back and\nPRICHARD replied that he would probably be back this week. CORCORAN then\nasked PRICHARD to cable DON RUSSELL and tell him not to forget about HOWIE\n(CORCORAN) \"because I want to begin to move HOWIE back\nbecause he made\nme a flat commitment he'd start to move the kid out.' CORCORAN asked PRICHARD\nif the latter would be at LINDEN'S (JOHNSON) dinner tonight and PRICHARD said\nno because he knew he was going to be discussed. PRICHARD said \"this is\nstrictly between us, but (Senator) BOB (LaFOLLETTE ?) talked to me this\nmorning.' PRICHARD said, \"It's about the Lands Division (in the Department\nof Justice). Now you see, TOM CLARK and LINDEN had talked about anti-trust\nand LINDEN talked to me about that the other night. Then today, BOB talked\nabout Lands, which is an entirely different thing.\" CORCORAN told him not to\ntake it and PRICHARD said he was not disposed to. CORCORAN said, \"I'm sure\nyou should not now go to the Department of Justice. I'm sure\nyou should\nhave that job I had at the Treasury\n'the assistant', not 'an assistant\nsecretary. This is a job that outranks 'em all.\" PRICHARD said there is no\nsuch job as \"the assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury.\" He said there\nare 5 assistants-with a couple of vacancies. CORCORAN said PRICHARD should\ntake one of these jobs because, \"I think it's lawfully important, one, that\nyou stay with this fellow (VINSON ?) close, that you should not get into\nanything where the volume of administrative baloney is such that you can't\ntake your eyes from it.\nI would stay up where I was advisor to this\nguy and I would not go into the Department of Justice under any circumstances.\"\nPRICHARD said, \"As to the latter, I'm fairly clear about that but I just\nstalled on it because\nCORCORAN interrupted him to ask, \"Now, what are"
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